Jim Morin for February 12, 2014

When a majority of voters elected this clown they knew he was black.His arrogance amidst constant failures is the reason he’s so unpopular now.

How about we make it mandatory that all NFL players publicly announce their sexual preferences and orientation? After all, why just make a big deal over one choice when there are so many others that go unmentioned? It seems that is not “fair and equal” to me…..As for the cartoon it is just an example of how bigoted the Left is in general…

Obama emasculates the GOP every time (2nd term, Obamacare, ‘clean’ debt ceiling) and all they do is whimper in defense.

Dog whistles.

Not the same thing at all.

@ Skipcarlsen & Enoki – I was exposed to racism by living in Southern Mississippi in the 1960s in the summers while living in Navy housing during the school year. The schools, churches, and neighborhood playgrounds I spent nine months of each year were full of whites, blacks, Asians, and Latinos and everyone got along fine. Then I would go to stay with my grandparents for the summer where I saw the other side of the coin. It’s interesting how adults will talk around kids as if they’re not even there. In the diners and stores where few blacks went despite laws saying they could, I heard people who sound much like you do in your comments here. They felt they were not prejudiced, it was those “other people” getting blacks all riled up and forgetting how things have always been. People just forget their ‘place’. Mr. Carlsen, I regret to inform you that there are many of your fellow conservatives who truly want Mr. Obama to fail because of his race. They fear a successful black president will lead to more blacks winning higher office and that will bring about the demise of the White Anglo Saxon Protestant way of life. And the millions to which you refer are declining in number each year, with a few additions coming from the divisiveness ripping our nation apart and competition for too few jobs, jobs that the white leaders of congress said would be the laser focus of the 2010 and 2012 sessions. That focus has been changed to protecting moderate Republicans from attacks from people running for those Republican seats from the Right much mores than from the left.As far as homosexuality goes, I find any public display of sexuality distasteful. My Bible tells me to worry about the beam in my eye before I get involved in the lives of others. I cannot support agendas that punish individuals for wanting to live in a loving and committed relationship. I don’t even object to polygamy between consenting adults. Why should I care how many husbands a woman has? ;)The point is, as individuals, we have a hard enough time practicing the kind of civility, respect and compassion Jesus and others encourage us to display. I wish I could agree with you and others that racism was no longer an issue, but sadly, racism, sexism, elitism, classism, and too many other isms are destroying our society much worse than gay marriage and football players.Enoki, there is probably as much ‘isms’ on the left as there is the right, but it seems the right is caught on video saying things that hurt your cause while the left tends to be accused of being an “ist” when they point out or focus on what the conservative caught on tape said or did.“He” wasn’t a racist for talking proudly about how new state laws would keep blacks from the voting booth, it was the liberals who were racist for talking about him doing so.There is no party or side that doesn’t have mud and/or blood on its hands, but isn’t it time we wash our hands of these prejudices and begin a clean start as friends and neighbors?Sincerely,C.

There is no doubt that Americans in particular have a lot of unconscious racism built into the culture. I’m not offering an opinion, I’m referring to research with things like the Implicit Association Test being used out of Harvard. (Try it here: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/).One reason we are supposed to have a rule of law is to override our unconscious biases as far as is possible.The hostility to Obama — who has generally shown himself to be an ordinary, corporate-friendly centrist, hardly the wild-eyed Marxist some claim; in many ways he’s to the right of Nixon — almost certainly has a racist component. This is exacerbated by the infamous “Southern Strategy,” and anyone who thinks this is not for real has not been paying attention, reading history, or reading the racist messages from many GOP “leaders,” especially when running for office.I think some of the hostility has also been due to political polarization, which some sociologists say has reached levels not seen since just before the Civil War.It’s perfectly legitimate to object to a president’s stands; it’s the levels of vitriol, venom, and bile that indicate something beyond an intellectual objection. Evidence: the Secret Service has gotten stretched because death threats to Obama went up 400% over George W. Bush’s — and it’s not like Bush was a hugely popular president, either! (That’s 30 a day, incidentally.)http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/5967942/Barack-Obama-faces-30-death-threats-a-day-stretching-US-Secret-Service.html

he is as white as he is black, the best derogatory category would be as a halfbreed. However he also is all human.

In Virginia, we have passed a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage, and to legally ignore any such arrangement made in a different state, including civil unions. To my knowledge this is the first and only time a constitution was used to RESTRICT rights, rather than to grant them.

So, “who cares where they stick their thingy”? Way too many Virginians, for a start.

While it is true that many who disapprove of Mr. Obama are not racist, we must all agree that every racist in the country disapproves of Mr. Obama, and many of them are better armed than they are educated. As Respectful Troll points out, this hurts us in the pocketbook because of the need for more Secret Service protection.

Notice Morin doesn’t assign any “party” in the ‘toon. Bigotry is NOT dead, and one of our most anti-Obama “for those reasons” guys, was an arch Democrat, from way back in "those days’. Yes, even with total flip-flops on some issues with the parties, and people’s viewpoints, some things never change with regard to tribal affiliations (which are often racial), it’s as old as Cain and Abel.

@ Repectful Troll:

I was raised south of Chicago. I remember in the early ‘60s when my uncles would come over for family parties. In the early evening after dinner, they would often sit in the twilight to smoke and discuss world events. I could hear them arguing beneath my bedroom window, maybe after they had a few shots. They would argue about World War II battles and what Eisenhower should have done, and so on. Within a few minutes the discussion would turn inevitably to their two greatest fears, Communists and N——-s. The two were closely linked in their thoughts. .It’s hard to believe they’re all dead now. I see and hear them in my mind so clearly. These were not bad men. They had steady jobs and took care of their families. After the war they worked hard, lots of overtime, and were far better off than their parents. But they were afraid that the bad times would come again, and anybody who might cause that was an enemy. Those were not uncommon thoughts in those days, either..I truly feared Communists, and I think many kids my age did. The word had an evil sound, a hum and a hiss. But “negro” kids were coming into my school and I liked many of them. I thought they had exotic “Southern” accents and chocolate skins. The first time I heard “colored people” I thought they would be like rainbows. So, it saddened me to hear certain things my uncles said, to see the demonstrations on TV. My parents didn’t talk like that within my hearing, and it was disturbing. It lent a certain disorder to my thoughts and an early sorrow..Prejudice was a common thing among people you loved, and the people you loved you just knew weren’t bad. Prejudice was only starting to become unfashionable and even against the law. Prejudice, then bigotry, then racism and sexism were escalating terms used in society. For those still pumped up from the war against “Krauts” and “Japs” it took some getting used to that they were saying bad things, that they were bigots or even racists. Would Archy Bunker be called “the lovable racist” today, instead of a bigot? .And as far as “gay” people, the first time I heard that term was on “Laugh-In.” Previously I had heard them called “homos.” Now that was a mysterious, twisted concept, and made me queasy and pray I wouldn’t ever be one. After a certain age boys start to tease each other about it, about being a “fag” if someone wasn’t into sports or read a lot. Do you remember the jokes on the big-network late-night talk show of the late ‘60s, Johnny Carson, Joey Bishop, and Dick Cavett – the nightly parts of the opening monologues about “the queers in Central Park.”? That stopped after a while, but homosexuals still had to stay low for years yet.. So much unkindness still in this country, inadvertent and thoughtless. And the trouble is that people often talk in what they think is frank fashion, and someone might be nearby they are hurting. I’ve done that a few times when young, oh so many years ago, and I still choke on the memories. I physically cringe. There is nothing worse than despising somebody for a reason they have no control over, or that you don’t understand. Keeping someone down and from being all they can be leads to evil. And no one really likes to think they or their friends are evil.. It’s amazing when we look back on attitudes once considered common sense and common place that were just plain wrong. And yet people thought they were acceptable. And it’s very disturbing to find in some places they still do.

I can, Ansonia, but I won’t. Some of them are friends of mine. Some are people who post their comments on other pages I visit. Some speak in ‘code’ that seems obvious to me, but you would find arguable. I envy you your place in the world where such things are not apparent to you. And if I took the time to actually find some of the videos I’ve seen where people are disparaging Mr. Obama because of his race, would you be able to accept it, or would you, like so many others did at the time, excuse it as parody or humor?I found the hitler mustaches drawn on Mr. Bush offensive on several levels, even though I was angry at most of Mr. Bush’s policies. However, he was president. I wrote my letters and I called my senators and let people know what I thought and waited for better days.Mr. Obama was chosen by the media and the Democrat party, and despite being an excellent speaker, showed he was not ready to be POTUS. Perhaps if he had help from the Senate and HoR he would have done better, but it did not help that prior to being sworn in, there were several high level meetings where Republicans agreed that whatever Mr. Obama proposed, they would block. Those links have been posted by me and others in the past and I’ve not the time or inclination to look for them for you. If truth is important, you can find them. Mr. McConnall is on tape saying that the goal of his caucus was to prevent Mr. Obama from being a second term president. Another of his many failures of the past decade.“You shall know them by their works” says the Bible. By their works, their motives are visible, by their words, those motives are clear.I’m sorry we must be opposed on this issue, Ansonia. We apparently don’t trust the others’ sources.Respectfully,C.

Babe Ruth’s strikeouts outnumbered his home runs. Could he also have won the games he did without his team supporting him? How many quarterbacks can win the game, without the linemen, or pass receivers?

Yep, Obama has done some things I don’t agree with, he’s made some mistakes, like assuming Republicans, and yes, some of his own people in Congress, would support him.

It would also help our country if that “leftist media” didn’t spend so much time coming up with “distractions” to detract from anything positive happening, like pulling out of Iraq, or watching the market climb to record levels (yes, benefitting the 1%), or after 100 years getting a health care bill (even if it is flawed by Republican inserts) passed.

Funny that the only people I hear using racist terms to describe a certain race of people are Blacks and Hispanics.Both about each other and about Whites.

Meanwhile in liberal news we’ll be ignoring the fact that a whole bunch of Dem sympathizers shot up the place, like everyday, lot of bodies which we won’t talk about because all of our cameras are focusing on some sort of right-leaning clod (who really has no focused philosophy) who said something stupid about a gay person or a black or yellow or red or whatever. We’ll make sure to ignore the dead elephants in the room, the gore, the blood, the thousands of dead because confronting that would require something real, like fortitude or guts or moral strength. More silliness at 10.